Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, from “Barstow, Calif.” Valerie Chiang. February 2015.

Photo by Christina Dimitriadis

Oil on canvas

faroe islands, july 2018

jintoniic

— Kim Addonizio, from ‘The Women’, Wild Nights: New and Selected Poems (via soracities)

As widespread lockdowns swept the globe earlier this year in response to the threat of COVID-19, intimacy became fraught. For artist Käthe Butcher, the loss of an embrace or casual peck on the cheek was incredibly difficult. This desire for connection culminated in “A Hug In The Garden,” an emotional rendering of two women holding each other. (Source)

gentle earth // retroluvv // andrea gibson, I sing the body electric; especially when my power is out

You hear music humming strangely from behind a shifting door, standing in an open field that wasn’t there before.

It goes without saying, Mel Bochner